Southern Xinjiang, one hundred thousand mountains.
The icy cold wind gradually made people feel the chill. The low black clouds in the sky and the gradually obvious deep cave all showed that the legendary devil's cave was gradually approaching. Lu Xueqi and the group stood tens of feet away from Zhenmogu Cave, looking towards the cave.
In the distance, a stone statue facing the depths of the cave and its back to them stood alone at the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, and there was nothing else.
Looking at the cave, Li Xun seemed a little nervous for no reason, and said in a low voice, "This is it."
The whistling wind seemed to suddenly raise its pitch a bit, making people startled. Lu Xueqi, Zeng Shushu, Li Xun and others have profound human qualities, so naturally they are not afraid of the yin energy contained in this dark wind, and the dozen or so Fenxianggu disciples who followed them are all masters selected from a hundred, and it seems that there are not many of them. uncomfortable look.
Zeng Shushu turned around and said: "The monster aura is really strong here, but we have observed for a long time, but there is not a single monster haunting, which is a little strange."
Lu Xueqi nodded, but her cold expression did not change at all, she said calmly: "Since we are here, let's go there, if there are any monsters, we should deal with them as soon as possible." After that, without waiting for Li Xun and others' reply , went straight forward.
Li Xun and Zeng Shushu looked at each other, Zeng Shushu laughed dryly, shrugged his shoulders, and followed. Li Xun looked at that slender figure from behind, and suddenly sighed secretly. To him, that figure had appeared in his dreams countless times, but when he really had a chance to be together, he seemed to be separated instead. farther.
He was silent for a moment, waved his hand, greeted the juniors behind him, and followed.
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In the distance, near the mysterious stone statue at the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave, a black shadow suddenly flashed and entered the cave, it was Heimu's figure.
Almost as Heimu's figure flashed to the entrance of the cave, there was a low growl out of nowhere in the depths of the cave. It was the voice of the fierce black tiger, and then the illusory smoke in the midair began to condense, and the fierce spirit was about to appear again.
At this moment, Heimu, who was hiding behind the black clothes, suddenly shouted: "Brother, don't come out yet, listen to me."
The voice of the vicious Heihu sneered, but the white smoke was still condensing, obviously not listening to Heimu, and said: "Beast, do you dare to come back?"
Hei Mu stood in the shadow of a corner of the cave, and said: "After you showed up, it is inevitable that these people who came here will be alarmed. Today, there is an endless stream of people coming to Zhenmogu Cave. Don't you know why?"
The illusory white smoke suddenly choked in mid-air, and it didn't continue to increase, but it didn't intend to disperse either.
After a while, Heihu's voice said coldly: "What do you mean?"
Heimu said coldly: "They came here to deal with the people in this cave, no matter what, isn't this exactly what you hoped for? What's more, you have already let people in, so why not let them in now?" Some people go in, why not?"
Outside the entrance of the cave, footsteps sounded far away, and the group of people approached this ancient deep cave.
The white smoke dispersed suddenly, and in the strong wind blowing from the depths of the cave, it disappeared instantly, and almost at the same time, the black figure of Kuroki also disappeared in the darkness.
The figures of Lu Xueqi, Zeng Shushu, Li Xun and others appeared in front of the entrance of Zhenmo Ancient Cave in the next moment.
Zeng Shushu cautiously glanced at the deep darkness in the depths of the cave, and frowned, obviously feeling a little uneasy about this place with such a monstrous aura but such a strange and unpredictable place.
Li Xun, who was standing beside him, was somewhat similar to him, and also frowned slightly, but his expression revealed some vague surprise and surprise in his eyes, and he walked back and forth near the entrance of the cave slowly. A few steps, but it was peaceful, except for the strong and piercing wind, there was no other sound.
This seemed to make Li Xun feel a little confused. He stared at the ancient cave of suppressing demons, silently, as if he was thinking about something.
Unlike these two men, after arriving outside the cave, Lu Xueqi quickly turned her attention from the deep darkness in Zhenmogu Cave to the mysterious and lonely stone statue of a woman next to her. She walked slowly. Go to the stone statue and stare at the stone statue.
The stone statue woman has experienced many years of wind, frost, rain and snow, and traces of erosion can be seen everywhere from top to bottom, but as if there is some kind of induction, Lu Xueqi can clearly see that the expression of the stone statue woman is still so lifelike, Her face was slightly sad, with a hint of sadness, and her eyes seemed to be confused, silently watching the depths of this mysterious ancient cave, as if she was expecting something, and she seemed to be confiding in something
It's just that in these tens of thousands of years, who has heard her heart words
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"Junior Sister Lu, Junior Sister Lu!"
Suddenly, a few surprised shouts came from the side, Lu Xueqi's whole body shook, and she couldn't help taking a step back, waking up from her inexplicable contemplation, and looked to the side.
Zeng Shushu's face was a little surprised, but also a little worried, and said: "Junior Sister Lu, I have called you several times, why do you seem to have not heard?"
Lu Xueqi's face turned pale slightly, and she slowly clenched the hand hanging around her waist, only to find that at some point, her palm was actually covered in cold sweat. She took a deep breath, calmed down, and said lightly: "It's okay, did you find anything?"
Zeng Shushu shook his head, and said: "No, apart from the strange wind gusts here, I haven't even seen a trace of a monster." Then he turned to Li Xun and said, "Senior brother Li, you found out What?"
Li Xun was silent for a moment, then shook his head as well, and said, "It's nothing, but there's something really weird here..."
Zeng Shushu wondered, "Strange, what's weird?"
Li Xun was startled, he quickly laughed dryly, and said: "No, I see that this place is a lair of monster beasts, so it's strange that there are no monster beasts here."
Zeng Shushu smiled, and said: "That's right, I also feel strange in my heart! What do you say, Junior Sister Lu?"
Lu Xueqi didn't answer right away, her bright and clear eyes slowly flickered, and she glanced at Li Xun again.
For some reason, Li Xun coughed suddenly, turned his head to look at the other Fenxianggu disciples, and said, "Come here, you guys, don't get too far away."
Lu Xueqi was silent for a moment, then turned her head to look at the stone statue of the woman, and said, "No matter what, we have come here, so there is absolutely no reason to give up halfway, let's go in!"
Zeng Shushu nodded and said: "That's right." After speaking, he turned to Li Xun and said, "Brother Li, what do you mean?"
Li Xun was still frowning, as if he had some incomprehensible thoughts on his mind at the moment, but he still said after a while: "Junior Sister Lu is right, let's go in!"
Zeng Shushu turned around and said: "In that case, let's go in! But this place is unusual after all, we'd better be careful. Well, I'll open the way first, Junior Sister Lu, you are in the middle, Senior Brother Li, you are behind, everyone else Brother Fenxianggu is walking in the middle, okay?"
Li Xun nodded, and just about to agree, suddenly Lu Xueqi said lightly from the side: "It's so inappropriate, let's change it!"
Both Zeng Shushu and Li Xun were startled, Zeng Shushu said: "Junior Sister Lu, what do you mean?"
Lu Xueqi pondered for a moment, then said: "I'll go ahead, Senior Brother Zeng is at the end, the others and Senior Brother Li are in the middle! Senior Brother Li and you are all disciples of Fenxiang Valley, if something goes wrong, it's good to have a commander to speak people."
Li Xun's expression changed slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but Zeng Shushu smiled and said, "Ah! That's right, why didn't I think of this point, Junior Sister Lu is right, so it's settled."
Li Xun frowned, but in the end he still kept his mouth shut and did not speak, which was regarded as a tacit consent.
Lu Xueqi looked at him, then turned her head and said to Zeng Shushu: "Brother Zeng, you are at the end and have a better view. You should see the overall situation and plan carefully."
Zeng Shushu smiled slightly, and suddenly turned his back to them at an angle that Li Xun and other Fenxianggu disciples couldn't see, blinked at Lu Xueqi, and then smiled: "Don't worry, Junior Sister Lu, you won't be afraid of any trouble if you leave me alone. Hahaha… "
Lu Xueqi took a deep look at Zeng Shushu, and suddenly a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, but then disappeared. Even so, this moment of brilliance has already caused the young disciples of Fenxiang Valley who secretly looked at her from a distance to be disturbed by it, and some people couldn't help sighing.
Li Xun snorted, his face was stern, and the strange sound disappeared without a trace.
Lu Xueqi's expression turned indifferent and cold again, she glanced around, and said, "We're going in." After speaking, she ignored the others and walked first.
Zeng Shushu turned around and smiled at Li Xun, "Brother Li, let's go too!"
Li Xun nodded, greeted the other Fenxianggu disciples, and followed.
When Li Xun and the group followed Lu Xueqi into the deep darkness, Zeng Shushu seemed to be taking his time, looking at the surrounding scenery for a while, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he smiled mysteriously and walked into the ancient cave slowly.
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The sound of low footsteps echoed from the darkness, and the entrance of Zhenmogu Cave fell into silence again. As the footsteps became lower and farther away, and finally disappeared, a figure suddenly flashed in the darkness, and then Hei Mu's figure slowly walked out of the darkness, and walked slowly to the stone statue of the woman In front of him, he silently looked at the stone statue.
Behind Heimu, the illusory white smoke slowly floated up and condensed, and the huge figure of the fierce black tiger appeared again.
But at this moment, the evil spirit Heihu didn't speak evil words to Heimu immediately, but turned back and stared into the darkness deep in the cave for a long time, then sneered suddenly, and said: "These people in Zhongtu have never ceased to intrigue, just When we got here, we were still fighting non-stop.”
Heimu turned around and said calmly: "People's hearts have always been like this, not to mention them, but you and me, and even the empress back then, isn't it the same?"
"What?" The huge body of the ferocious black tiger suddenly turned around, because the speed was too fast, so that it made a muffled sound like a wild beast growling in mid-air, and when he looked at his face again, his face was already full of anger , extremely ferocious, just heard him roar: "What are you talking about, you dare to insult the empress, and you are still in front of the statue of the empress?"
In front of this terrifying giant body, Hei Mu's body looked extremely small, but for some reason, although his face could not be seen clearly, from his calm tone, it could be heard that he was not in the slightest. The meaning of fear, more, seems to be deep tiredness.
"Brother, if the empress hadn't been scheming back then, what do you think could have sealed that immortal monster in this ancient cave for so many years?"
The vicious spirit Heihu was obviously suffocated, but he obviously didn't want to admit it, and roared: "What nonsense are you talking about, it's all about your empress back then..."
"Okay!" Suddenly, Hei Mu, uncharacteristically, let out a drink, interrupting the evil spirit Heihu, and said: "Don't always talk about your mother, your mother, and respect your mother. No less than you."
The fierce black tiger's huge body froze for a moment, and a look of astonishment appeared on his face involuntarily. After a while, he didn't get angry, but his expression calmed down instead, looking at this relative from the previous life from top to bottom.
He suddenly smiled, and then said lightly: "What's wrong with you, you never talked to me like this before?"
Hei Mu sneered as if mocking himself, and slowly turned his gaze back to the exquisite stone statue of the Witch Maiden, and said slowly: "Yes! I would never talk like that before, but why? Now I will become like this? I don't know, who can tell me?"
The fierce black tiger said coldly: "That's your own business, I'm not interested and don't want to know, just tell me one thing."
Heimu stared blankly at Linglong's stone statue, and said, "What?"
The evil spirit Heihu said: "At the beginning, you betrayed the legacy left by your mother. You were so rebellious that you privately helped that evildoer retrieve the five holy artifacts of the five tribes in southern Xinjiang, and resurrected him. But why did you let me let him in today? Hole, intending against him?"
Heimu's gaze never left Linglong's stone statue, and after a long while, he said in a low and painful voice, "Your Majesty did a mistake in sealing the beast god; It was also a mistake to wait for this monster to come out; I thought that the Beast God was not responsible for this crime, but unexpectedly he turned his anger on the people of the world, so that this catastrophe occurred, and I was also wrong."
He smiled miserably, turned around suddenly, opened his arms, and shouted to the sky with a shrill voice.
"Wrong!... Wrong!... Wrong!... So we were all wrong..."
The voice of the shout echoed far away, and the mountains responded, but the world was indifferent, but as if nothing had changed, they stared at the mortal world coldly.
The fierce black tiger's huge body stood aside, looking at Heimu's suddenly painful figure, he also fell silent, without saying a word, just standing silently behind him, in the eye sockets, the complicated eyes slightly Flickering, but, but not the slightest tear.
Whether it's him or Hei Mu, in this desolate world, for thousands of years, they have already lost the right to cry!
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Lu Xueqi, who was walking in the Zhenmo Ancient Cave, suddenly felt something, stopped, turned around and took a look at the way she had come, but the way behind her was pitch-black and completely silent, except for silence, there was no sound at all.
It was just that sudden throbbing that rolled and reverberated in my heart, and it never calmed down for a long time.
Li Xun, who was not far behind her, said in a low voice: "Junior Sister Lu, what's the matter, did you find anything?"
In the darkness, Lu Xueqi turned around slowly, facing the front, where there was also a dark darkness.
She was silent for a moment in the dark, and then said quietly: "It's nothing, let's go!"
She took a deep breath, cheered herself up, and walked boldly. The darkness quietly dissipated in front of her, because from her hand, the Tianya Excalibur gradually lit up, and the gentle light blue light enveloped her side gently, It looks like a dream.
Behind him, I don't know how many people held their breath for an instant.
However, that beautiful figure resolutely walked towards the dark road. Although he looked a bit lonely, he did not hesitate at all.
This section of the road, such a life, but how should we go through it
She didn't look back.
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In the depths of Zhenmo Ancient Cave.
The flame was burning quietly in that ancient brazier. If you look carefully, you will find that there is no firewood or lamp oil in the brazier under the firelight. It is rootless fire.
The flames flickered in mid-air, and the flames swayed, illuminating the face of the beast god, and also reflected the figure of the man who was approaching.
Gui Li walked to the other side of the fire, his face slowly appeared in the light, and at the same time he saw the familiar face in front of him.
The Beast God who was still sitting on the ground leaning on the small stone platform smiled slightly, looked Gui Li up and down, and said: "I knew that someone would come here sooner or later, but I didn't expect that you would be the first here." He paused , smiled and said: "You didn't seem surprised when you saw me just now. Did you already know my identity when we met before?"
Gui Li shook his head slowly, facing this young and gentle man, it was really hard to think of him as the beast monster that brought untold catastrophe to the entire world, but this is the truth.
"I guessed it later." He replied flatly.
The Beast God looked at him and said gently: "Oh, I'm very interested. How did you guess it? Did you guess my appearance from the rumors, or my clothes, or my various behaviors? What about your identity?"
"Not at all." Gui Li said.
The beast god seemed to be interested, and said, "Oh, what is that?"
Gui Li glanced at him, said: "It is it."
The Beast God nodded slowly, and said, "Yes, this is the best way, you can't go wrong."
Beside him, the evil beast Taotie let out a low growl.
The Beast God stretched out his hand, and from a distance, Gui Li could even see that that hand was strangely pale, it didn't seem like a human hand at all. Hands as seen in wizards.
However, after the seemingly weak hand patted it a few times, it seemed that he had received some comfort, Taotie calmed down, and slowly lay down on the ground. At the same time, Xiao Hui, the monkey who had been staying on Ghost Li's shoulder, slowly slipped down, touched his head on the ground, and then looked at Ghost Li and Beast God, as if feeling that the relationship between these two people was not as expected. intense hostility.
It thought for a while, then slowly, slowly approached Taotie. Taotie obviously also noticed this, turned his head, and watched the gray-haired three-eyed monkey approaching. Soon, Xiaohui approached Taotie, it grinned, spread its hands, its tail behind it was raised and swayed, then it slowly stretched out its hand, and touched Taotie's head .
The eyes of Ghost Li and Beast God were temporarily attracted by Xiao Hui, but neither of them spoke, just watched silently.
Seeing Xiao Hui's actions, Gui Li's heart suddenly moved, once upon a time, many years ago, when he was the ordinary Zhang Xiaofan, on the Big Bamboo Peak, Xiao Hui was similar to the big yellow dog that Tian Yi raised.
Taotie slowly straightened its body, but didn't stand up immediately, it seemed a bit confused. It turned its head to look at its master Beast God. The Beast God seemed to be indifferent, showing no displeasure. Then it turned around again, and Xiao Hui's hand stretched out to its head.
Taotie suddenly snorted in a low voice, as if it was a demonstration. Xiao Hui was startled, and retracted her arms, and then found that Taotie was not attacking, but was only looking at herself vigilantly.
Xiao Hui chuckled, jumped on the ground twice, suddenly jumped forward, and jumped to the side of Taotie's body. Taotie was obviously startled, and shrank back, but the monkey Xiaohui had already touched its head slowly. To Xiao Hui, Taotie's ferocious head seems to be very kind.
Taotie let out a low grunt, as if it was complaining, but after a while, it slowly and lazily lay down on the ground again, resting its head on its own arm, as if a little drowsy. And Xiao Hui also leaned against it, making a "squeak, squeak" chuckle from time to time, slowly stroking Taotie's head.
There seemed to be no barrier between the two spirit beasts.
The eyes of Ghost Li and Beast God slowly turned away from them, and they were silent for a while.
After an unknown amount of time, the Beast God suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, they are happier than us, aren't they?"
Gui Li didn't speak.